
Maya Braun
Profile
Maya obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology in 2020 at Ghent University. After collecting experience in different areas of psychology during her student jobs, internships and theses, she joined the Health Psychology Lab of Ghent University as a doctoral student.
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Geert Crombez, Dr. Annick De Paepe and Dr. Femke De Backere, Maya is working on the promotion of physical activity in healthy adults using an ontology-based eHealth system. She aims to develop an innovative theoretical model, integrating the generic and abstract constructs of an existing theory of health behavior change with the specificity and particularity of the individual. Based on this model, it will be possible to personalize and contextualize the intervention, resulting in more effective behavioral change.
Interests
- Physical activity
- eHealth and mHealth
- Ontologies
- Machine Learning
- Personaliation and Contextualization

Meet the team
Meet our enthousiastic and lively team of professors, post-doctoral researchers, phd students and research assistants
Fleur Baert
Fleur graduated as a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University.
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez is Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Experimental-Health Psychology at Ghent University.
Marie De Breucker
I obtained my Master of Science in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2021. During my six month research internship at the Ghent Experimental Psychiatry Lab, where I investigated an attentional bias to food in patients with anorexia nervosa, my interest in research was further enhanced, especially involving clinical populations.
Annick De Paepe
Annick De Paepe is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Geert Crombez and Prof. Dr. Delfien Van Dyck at the Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology at Ghent University.